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Bearna
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Barna, officially known as Bearna in both Irish and English, is a coastal village on the R336 regional road in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Located approximately 7 km west of the centre of Galway city, it has become a satellite village of Galway. The village, which is mostly Irish speaking, is a constituent part of the regions of Ireland that make up the Gaeltacht.
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- Locality
- Bearna
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,998
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Barna
- Settlement.official_name
- Bearna
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sunset over Bearna harbour.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Barna quay at dusk
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Galway
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 2,336
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Gaeltacht
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Galway
- Population
- 2336
- Area
- 1.89
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Galway Bay
- Image
- Bearna (Barna) - geograph.org.uk - 1288758.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bearna
- Irish Grid Reference
- M232227
- historic county
- County Galway
- native label
- Bearna
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Irish language
- Community and sport
- Townlands
- International links
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Barna, officially known as Bearna in both Irish and English, is a coastal village on the R336 regional road in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Located approximately 7 km west of the centre of Galway city, it has become a satellite village of Galway. The village, which is mostly Irish speaking, is a constituent part of the regions of Ireland that make up the Gaeltacht.
==History== Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of shell midden, ringfort, holy well and castle sites in the townlands of Barna, Knockaunnacarragh, Derryloney and Truskey. Barna House, a large Georgian house in Barna townland, was built in 1778. The quay at Barna was built in the 1820s to designs by Alexander Nimmo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bearna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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